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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

It's no secret I'm a Martha Stewart fan so when I spotted her Martha Stewart Home Office™ with Avery™ line in Staples a few months ago, I stopped to fondle nearly all of the products (shhh! Don't tell anyone I'm an inappropriate paper toucher!).

Despite being one of the most unorganized people you'll ever meet, Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery collection had quite a few things that got me thinking up fun ways I could put them to use.
I was especially enamored with the labels and tags. Chalkboard and Dry Erase Labels made for kitchen storage would also make a great way to package Christmas gifts. ElastiNote® Tags are perfect for those token hostess gifts (jars of jam, candle or bottle of wine) that I never know how to package quickly on the way out the door. Or maybe one of these brightly colored journals would be perfect to keep in my purse for notes when inspiration strikes.

I resisted the desire to dump the entire display into my cart, but I knew I'd be back one day. Today is that day! Avery sent me a bunch of Martha Stewart Home Office products to try out and I went to work! I feel like Vasco da Gama because I've discovered a simple way to use "hidden" storage space, and that makes me very happy. Some Martha Stewart file folder labels helped me make it feel polished and organized rather than thrown together out of necessity. And isn't the whole point of great organizational supplies to make the most of what we have?

You already know baby's nursery doesn't have a closet so I've been trying to come up with creative storage options. Enter the hallway closet that has a perfectly good door going to complete waste. It took less than 5 minutes to get this going. Now I just need to fill it with baby necessities, and I'll be all set!

I hung the tree on the door and wrote out a few labels for the baby gear I do have in my stash. They were the perfect size for the area above the pocket. As I get more, I'll add more sections. Should I need to change it around, I'll have no problem just putting a new label right on top. Hooray! I'm loving this so much, I ordered more trees so I can use the same system in my linen closet and pantry.

So now that you know how much fun this line is, don't you want your own?

Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery and BlogHer are giving away a $100 Staples gift card to one lucky winner. Enter for a chance to win now by telling me: How would use use one of the items from the Martha Stewart line to help organize your home?

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The Brown Kraft labels are beautiful! I am very into labelling EVERYTHING that I organize in my house lately- trying to emphasize the whole "there is a PLACE for everything" with my husband so things are easier to find!

I have been admiring the Martha Stewart Avery line for awhile too especially all the cute labels. I think it will finally give me the inspiration to organize our home office. BTW, I am a Martha Stewart fan too and I am really missing her Hallmark Show especially all her Christmas decorating & baking.

I would most definitely be getting those pale teal pocket folders AND those little metal tags that are shown on the front, where you can slip in a handwritten tag. I have a Staples ad ripped out of a magazine and tucked in my purse to remind me to go to Staples and get these.

I <3 the kitchen labels...we are currently DIYing a new pantry in our house, so those would be SO helpful in getting things organized and making sure we're not just moving a cluttered mess into a less-cluttered mess! lol

My pantry is a sad hodgepodge of goods. Which is SO unlike me in the other aspects of my life - I'm an organizational freak. I think I need her systems of chalk lables, boxes, etc to make my pantry "make sense."

I would love to win this! The chalkboard labels are singing to me. I have thought about painting them on, but with these labels it would be so much easier! I have so many totes to label as we are house of six and it can get so cluttered.

I would be all over binders and binder accesories. I have piles that need a home and have been telling myself to buy binders. The pile of financial records on the dining room table, poof! That pile of home repairs, appliance stuff, etc in the nightstand bam!! I'm dreaming of seeing my surfaces again since 19.... okay 2009.

Super smart idea for the inside of the door. I love Martha's collection at Staples- clean, simple and very functional. I would really like to have a couple of the binders/page protectors to organize our manuals/house information.

I'm currently organizing my bedroom closet, my kitchen, and my home office. The home office has a long way to go but the bedroom closet already has some floor totes to hold odds and ends (swimsuits, purses) that could definitely use some swanky labels. I'm eagerly thinking about the possibilities of chalkboard labels in the kitchen too...

The chalk board labels for when I'm knee deep in a project, especially card making, I could label five or six tins with the pieces of the card set I'm making, so I can have an assembly line & don't forget pieces! It would be fabulous!

I need all of those cute kitchen labels! I tried making chalkboard paint labels for our annual pig roast this summer to inform our fellow lovers which of the hubs's dipping sauce they were about to enjoy, but it ended up being a massive DIY fail.

I homeschool my 10, 8 and 6 year old daughters. I can use labels on folders, notebooks, math kit boxes, ....so many things! In fact, next year's goal in this house is organization!!!! like I said last year :)

I need some new journals/notebooks for work (not exciting, but if they're prettier maybe my handwriting will be better? One can hope). Also, I love the clothes labeling idea for my little girl who's due in January.

Oh I need all the filing supplies. I have a man with an office of stacked & boxed papers that need to be attacked. It would be so great to have these in file folders with nice labels so that they are easy to find. Just thinking about getting that area organized gets me excited. The work involved is not so exciting. :)